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After all that the Queen had said to me respecting the mistakes made by M. de Goguelat, I thought him of course disgraced. What was my surprise when, having been set at liberty after the amnesty which followed the acceptance of the constitution, he presented himself to the Queen, and was received with the greatest kindness!
Goguelat was detested in life; in the last three days, by his admirable staunchness and consideration, he won every heart; and when word went about the prison the same evening that he was no more, the voice of conversation became hushed as in a house of mourning.
There was one man of the name of Goguelat, a brute of the first water, who had enjoyed no touch of civilisation beyond the military discipline, and had risen by an extreme heroism of bravery to a grade for which he was otherwise unfitted that of maréchal des logis in the 22nd of the line.
M. de Goguelat possessed her confidence for all correspondence with the foreign parties, and I was obliged to have him in my apartments; the Queen asked for him very frequently, and at times which she could not previously appoint. All parties were exerting themselves either to ruin or to save the King.
"Popularity, Madame." "And how could I use that," replied her Majesty, "of which I have been deprived?" "Ah! Madame, it was much more easy for you to regain it, than for me to acquire it." The Queen mainly attributed the arrest at Varennes to M. de Goguelat; she said he calculated the time that would be spent in the journey erroneously.
There was one man of the name of Goguelat, a brute of the first water, who had enjoyed no touch of civilisation beyond the military discipline, and had risen by an extreme heroism of bravery to a grade for which he was otherwise unfitted that of marechal des logis in the 22nd of the line.
"I have that honour, sir," said I. "You have seen me for the same period. I do not know how I strike you; but perhaps you will be prepared to believe that I also am a man of honour," said he. "I require no assurances; the thing is manifest," and I bowed. "Very well, then," said he. "What about this Goguelat?" "You heard me yesterday before the court," I began. "I was awakened only "
The doctor vowed it was impossible, the nature and direction of the wound forbidding it. Goguelat replied that he was more ingenious than the other thought for, and had propped up the weapon in the ground and fallen on the point 'just like Nebuchadnezzar, he added, winking to the assistants.
It was a small room, whitewashed; a south window stood open on a vast depth of air and a spacious and distant prospect; and from deep below, in the Grassmarket the voices of hawkers came up clear and far away. Hard by, on a little bed, lay Goguelat. The sunburn had not yet faded from his face, and the stamp of death was already there.
I cannot do that; I cannot take away what his Majesty has given; but one thing I promise you I promise you, Goguelat, you shall be dead to-night." I had borne so much from him in the past, I believe he thought there was no end to my forbearance, and he was at first amazed.
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